Full-stack indie hacker building SQLitePilot in public and hoping these tools genuinely help other teams.
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After several failed SaaS attempts, I finally built something I actually use daily
How a remote SQLite GUI called SQLitePilot grew out of repeated failures and daily agency pain points.
I have a folder full of failed SaaS attempts and judging by other indie hackers I'm not alone. But after all those failures, I finally built something that actually scratches my itch.
I run a small software agency and all our projects are hosted either on on-premise mini PCs or cheap VPS servers (DigitalOcean, Hetzner etc.) using SQLite. It’s a great stack, but managing the SQLite databases remotely was always a pain. It wasn't convenient SSH-ing in and writing SQL commands in the terminal just to check a user record.
So I built SQLitePilot.
It’s a GUI that connects to the remote server via SSH and lets you manage SQLite databases visually.
I hope other builders find it helpful. But even if I’m the only user (again), at least this project has one guaranteed happy customer—me.
Let’s see how this project goes.